New album, new dates for local band

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Sep 24, 2007 at 12:01 AMSep 24, 2007 at 1:26 AM

THE ROADIE

That old rock and roll dream of being a garage band isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be.

Just ask mysteadybackfire. The five-man local band has its own garage it has access too on Marguerite Street in East Stroudsburg. But the windows are closed and the doors are shut to keep the quiet neighborhood from calling the cops every time the band practices.

So on an unseasonably warm day last week, let’s just say it was a little hot.

“You should see it in the summer,” guitarist and lead vocalist Dave Dzambo, 25, of Delaware Water Gap, said. “It’s not pretty.”

Perhaps that’s just fine. The loud and dirty mysteadybackfire is raw enough

So maybe the garage is more than just an uncomfortable practice joint. Maybe it’s training.

Whatever it is, it’s working. mysteadybackfire is starting to make a name for itself, and a new CD releases Sept. 12 has been selling well at local stores like Main Street Jukebox and Rock ‘N Willy’s. Soon, it’ll be at fye.

The album, For All That’s Lost . . . also is available at any of the band’s shows for $6.

By Christmas, the band is hoping to have a DVD to accompany the CD.

“We’re looking to get some extra live shows first,” Dzambo said.

That shouldn’t be much of a problem. The band just played the Sherman Theater on Friday in a show with local favorites Cherryfix, and this weekend the guys will be at the Penn Monster Factory with Afterella (which will be Afterella’s last show).

“Pennsylvania, that’s where we play,” guitarist and back-up local man Brian Lynch, 26, of Easton, said. “We’ll play anywhere.”

And getting those gigs in is part of the band’s dream. Playing all over the place will be a test to show how much the songs are getting out to people.

“When the crowd can sing along with all of our songs, that’s when we know we’ve made it,” Effort’s Micah Harrison, 20, said.